Hey guys so this is senior year and it started off great and then it divebombed. I will spare some details, but long story short is one of our dogs attacked the ehiickens. He severly maimed two beyone hope of recovery, one had its neck ripped to shreads so I had to put her down myself. I searched because all but two of the other chickens wer emissing. I found anohter girl who I also had to put down. Her intestines were hanging out of her ripped open chest/stomach. After that I brought out the bag of treats and started shaking it. I quickly found 2 girls who were Houdini and Wieser. I will admit Wieser (the chicken one) is my little baby I had cried pretty hard when I had to put the ohter two girls out of their misery, but when I saw that wieser was okay I fell to the ground shaking and sobbing she came right up to me and I grabbed her and cuddled her and cried and cried…. We put her and Houdini back in the pen and then I kept walking around and trying to find the others… 2 more girls showed up in the yard and we put them away… I was really worried that Gabe the rooster was fataly injured or that he was dead already because his real long tail feathers were all over the yard… We all kept looking and looking and all of a sudden I hear Gabe running out from the trees and the corn field and I screamed that Gabe was okay and started crying all over again... and then we were still missing one more girl Dixie… we looked and looked and looked some more… checking under pine trees… trucks…. In the tops of trees…. In the grass…. And finaly in a spot we had all walked by a couple of times, I caught movement out of the corner of my eye and there was Dixie… she had hidden herself in some tall grass right next to our house…. I started crying again as I picked her up…. She was in really rough shape… and I honestly comtemplated putting her down too…. But her internal organs were still on the inside and the back of her neck was missing skin, but everything else was still intact… upon further evaluation we decided to try to save her. We brought her inside and put her in a small dog kennel and covered it so it was dark and hopefully it would help her with shock… I gave her a half hour to just sit and then I went in and offered water and she drank! That was a sign to me that she wanted to keep on fighting and that she wanted to live. So after I gave her more water and took some pictures of her injuries… we made a run to bombgars we got an antibiotic for her that goes in water and they drink, and we also got some vetrycin…. So fast forward to today, it has been a week from the accident and she is still doing good. She is eating and drinking normally and her wounds are slowly healing, but slow is better than nothing at all!
So we have heard about the losses and now is time for the gains…
I have been looking around for awhile to try to find a hen that is generally broody….. And well I got 2 more hens now! Their names are Shanequia and Liberty…. Shanequia is a black Austorlorp, and Liberty is an Americana…. Shanequia lays brown eggs identical to the rhode island reds while Liberty will (once she starts laying again shes adjusting to her new home) lay blue eggs.
Next up is the other three new girls I got Wednesday… they are 3 Rhode Island Red girls their names are Alice, Emmy, and Zasha….. They have only been here for 2 days and everyone is getting along nicely…
And finally another exciting gain… 2 weeks ago (2 weeks tomorrow) I put 39 eggs in the incubator and quite a few of them are showing development! At least 22 are showing development and I will be happy if at least one hatches! I hope all the ones that show development will hatch. I will go ahead and post some pictures and videos later tonight for you guys!
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